Sentences with phrase «largest oil spill»

1) Though almost nobody has heard of it, the second largest oil spill ever was in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979.
Matt's extensive experience includes representing an international drilling contractor and an oil pipeline company in connection with large oil spills, an oil and natural gas company in control of well claims, and an oil and gas company in construction disputes arising out of the sale of crude heaters for a refinery modernization project.
«The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates that there have been 187 large oil spills between 1981 and 2005 in OCS areas open to drilling, with each spill releasing more than 2,100 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.»
In Brooklyn, one of the nation's largest oil spills in an almost century - old tank site originally owned by Standard Oil, has not yet been fully dealt with.
However, in what will be a controversial statement, they found that, «a large oil spill would not cause permanent, widespread damage to the environment.»
Tragic tanker sinking lays bare the true risk Kinder Morgan poses to British Columbia Leaving an ocean of fire, and the largest oil spill since 1991 in its wake, MV Sanchi exploded and then sank to the bottom of the Pacific on January 14.
Peabody also said he didn't believe there was any connection between Thursday's fire and other operational issues that have landed Husky in trouble with regulators in recent years, including a near - miss with an iceberg at a platform offshore Newfoundland and a large oil spill in Saskatchewan in 2016.
No doubt BP has plenty on its mind at the moment, what with having to repair the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
A worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is claiming he told BP about a faulty piece of safety equipment weeks before the rig explosion that has led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $ 17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six - year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Although numerous efforts are put into cleaning up large oil spills, only 15 to 25 % of the oil can be effectively removed by mechanical methods.
In an award - winning NPR story, Richard Harris uncovered the true damage behind the largest oil spill in U.S. waters.
It was the largest oil spill in United States waters by that time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills.
It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.
This is the largest oil spill in the San Francisco Bay since the Cape Mohican incident in 1996.
It became the largest oil spill in the
This would make it the largest oil spill in the history of the Midwest.
I don't think anybody here has forgotten what happened last year, where we had to deal with the largest oil spill in [our] history.
Nearly five months after BP's Macondo well was wrecked in a fiery series of explosions that killed 11 rig workers and unleashed America's largest oil spill, the well head on the sea floor was officially «killed» over the weekend.
This oil spill would eventually impact over 1,100 miles of Alaska's coastline, making the Exxon Valdez the largest oil spill to date in U.S. waters.
1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.
«The environmental, societal, and economic burdens of a large oil spill, while unlikely and not permanent, would be significant.
Two decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill devastated a vast stretch of the Alaskan coast, governments and industry in the Arctic would be unable to effectively manage a large oil spill, according to a new report by World...
In fact, Bush's five - year plan for offshore drilling described a «large oil spill» as no more than 1,500 barrels.
«Moving forward with drilling in the Chukchi Sea without any concrete measures to address a large oil spill in broken ice conditions is a perilous venture that could have disastrous consequences for the Inupiat and their whaling way of life.
You may have missed it, but about two months ago Australia experienced one of its largest oil spills, when a ship owned by Swire Shipping spilled about 70,000 gallons of oil and 620 tonnes of fertilizer in the vicinity of Moreton Island.
The Gulf of Mexico spill is more than 18 times the size of Alaska's Exxon Valdez, previously the nation's largest oil spill.
Friday, Reuters reported that the March 2 oil spill is worse than previously reported and that «up to 267,000 gallons (6,357 barrels) of crude oil poured out of a pipeline at the Prudhoe Bay field [not far from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge], making it the largest oil spill ever recorded on the state's North Slope.»
For more information on the effects of last year's spill and to further consider what is happening in the Gulf today, watch this 4 minute video on the science of last year's spill, where one year after the largest oil spill in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are trying to determine the long - term ecological effects.
The case, a dispute between a London P&I Club and the Kingdom of Spain, involving one of the largest oil spills in recent years, raises the issue of when an applicant that took no part in the arbitral proceedings can challenge an arbitration award.
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